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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

HappyThankYouMorePlease

10 days out of every year I get to be a film critic. That's because I live in the tiny town where Robert Redford holds his Sundance Film Festival. Last night I saw the 2010 Audience Award Dramatic Winner: HappyThankYouMorePlease. It's a cute movie based on the premise that it's...

... Quite all right to ask for a little bit more of anything that makes you happy.

Azaleas are re-blooming for the umpteenth time. Plump, pink buds ready to open as soon as the big flower's time is up.

Early this morning I was anxiously awaiting the end of the coffee pot's drip, drip, drip. The signal I can begin my day. Busying myself, inspecting the flowers and thinking about that idea: HappyThankYouMorePlease and what, exactly, makes me happy.

The face only a Mother could love. Plumeria stalks are preparing to set their first leaves.

Certainly flowers do. You can't get a job in my indoor garden if you won't flower. But what really makes me happy...

What really and truly gets me excited is not always the flower...

Delicate Cyclamen buds hiding in the shade of the big green leaves.

It's that spiffy green growth and new tiny buds ~ the promise of another flower. After the ones the store provided, the flowers that prompted me to buy her in the first place, are all gone.

Look close. Pink and yellow Rosebuds are hatching a plan.

Same deal outdoors. Half the time I look right past the gorgeous blossom to see who's waiting in the wings to do the same darn thing.

African Violets ~ Maybe, just maybe, will be showing off for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.

The day I started behaving like that is the day I feel I officially became a gardener. When those little buds that nobody sees but me suddenly became my gratification.

Because they tell me the whole story.

Which always prompts me to exclaim:

Hey! You're not dead??

Perhaps I'm a good gardener, after all!

Bonus Photo: Even my leftover produce is in a happy growing mood these days.

28 comments:

Kate, I like this title and its premise based on the movie you speak of! Sweet blooms and I too love the buds nearly the most. You crack me up with the Plumeria stalks comment... only a mother indeed! ;>))

Your plants look so healthy with all those green shoots and buds in your indoor garden. I like your definition of a real gardener, Kate. I realized one day, too, that the showy blooms that eventually come aren't the only things that are enjoyable in the garden. I can get just much enjoyment from an interesting leaf or a dried seed pod--last summer I spent a lot of time getting excited about caterpillars on my plants:)

How exciting to live in the same town as the Sundance Film Festival! Have you ever caught a glimpse of Robert Redford??

What a fun and charming post! I am happy your produce is happy ha ha!! So cute! Gorgeous pictures of buds and leaves..all the flowers an plants..love the textures..great light..so beautiful. Wonderful post!Kiki~

Hi Kate, how lucky to live in that wonderful place! Our only connection is getting the Sundance catalog with an occasional purchase. HA I love the sound of more of what you love. And agree completely that buds are reason to rejoice, perhaps more than the flowers themselves. Anticipation is better than the event, the uphill as opposed to the downhill of life. :-)Frances

Is it bad to admit I'm not wild about African violets? People kept giving them to me because they wouldn't bloom for them, but they did for me... and now my last one looks dead because it fell over... and it turns out I'm a little sad. Ah, the complex emotions of tending plants! ;-)

Hi, Frances;There's a Sundance Farm near here, where they grow their lavender, etc. It used to be open to the public. I haven't been there in years but I should go check that out again. Might be blog-worthy. :)

Green is the best color for therapy. I am in withdrawal...with the exception of the trees, it is all dirty brown snow outside and dried up grass. It is amazing the benefits of a blooming houseplant. My amaryllis kept me sane this winter. :)You are so lucky...I love all those independant films, not in the mainstream.Rosey

I am glad you posted a picture of your Plumeria- I stuck mine in the dirt two weeks ago, put it in the window and I thought nothing was happening! But come to think of it, the tops are beginning to form those strange little nubby things. Success!

Hi Kate, lovely blossoms and you are indeed a good gardener! I also wanted you to know the mystery bird at our place has been solved: a juvenile Golden-crowned Sparrow... never seen a sparrow that large. ;)